Highly-anisotropic liquid-crystal mixtures for tunable microwave devices

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 1732-1734

  Weil, C ^a   Muller St ^b   Scheele, P ^b   Best, P ^c   Lussem G ^c   Jakoby, R ^b  

^a AFT GmbH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; PHASE SHIFTERS;

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; TUNABLE MICROWAVE DEVICES;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0344704055     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20031150     Document Type: Article

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